finding 5% or less disel blend

**augie4680** · 07-29-2011, 03:16 PM

i live in chicago and have three brand new sprinters 2011 i am told that finding fuel is allmost impossible mercedes doesnt have an answer other than use less than 5% blend biodiesel no one can tell me where that is im allso told the government does not require the station to post the blend im told by mercedes that anything higherr than 5% could harm the engine and void the warranty il rewards fuel distributers on tax per gallon the higher the blend i talked to the exec vp at speedway and he says mst of il is 10 percent or more this is a problem help if you can

**flman** · 07-30-2011, 12:47 PM

Yep, the DPF was big oils way of making sure you can not burn bio diesel in 2007 and up diesels.

Cant you just go to a name brand fuel station and fill up with straight diesel like I do?

**ebsprintin** · 07-31-2011, 05:11 PM

Ah, the irony. To buy a vehicle that cannot run on the fuel that is mandated by the state. Sorry to say this, but you have to leave the state of Illinois to fuel up. And if you find a pump in Illinois that doesn't have a biodiesel blend label, it doesn't matter. The state doesn't require pumps to be labeled for biodiesel even if that is what is in the pump.

eb

**flman** · 07-31-2011, 07:38 PM

So, bio is mandated in Illinois? In all my 19 years of owning diesels I have never have never burned biodiesel. No place to buy it local in NYS.

**ebsprintin** · 08-01-2011, 01:14 AM

I thought I posted a "I stand corrected" post, but it's not here. On further research it appears the only "mandate" is that Illinois government vehicles have to use B5 or higher. However, the fuel taxes are such that bio blends are given such an advantage that it is pretty close to impossible to find non-bio diesel on the fly.As someone who is always flying through, I just don't fuel in Illinois. Making that more difficult is that Wisconsin is supposted to be going to B10 in 2012.

eb